Postpartum disorder

Postpartum disorder
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A postpartum disorder or puerperal disorder is a disease or condition which presents primarily during the days and weeks after childbirth called the postpartum period. The postpartum period can be divided into three distinct stages: the initial or acute phase, 6–12 hours after childbirth; subacute postpartum period, which lasts two to six weeks, and the delayed postpartum period, which can last up to six months.[1] In the subacute postpartum period, 87% to 94% of women report at least one health problem.[2][3] Long term health problems (persisting after the delayed postpartum period) are reported by 31% of women.[4]

The World Health Organization (WHO) describes the postpartum period as the most critical and yet the most neglected phase in the lives of mothers and babies; most maternal and newborn deaths occur during the postpartum period.[5]

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